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• paul002000 Passing interface references to activities

  I have a large COM system service for which I have generated .NET metadata for use by managed clients. I have created a sequential workflow. In the workflow host, I create the COM server and want to communicate its interface pointer to activities in my workflow so that they can use its services. I am using Data Activities at present, which requires that the objects passed between host/workflow be serializable. But I don't want to serialize the e ...Show All

• SWA When will vindows vista final be released ?

  Can anyone tell me when the final windows vista will be released The announcement forum is meant for site updates, scheduled maintenance, and site usage guidelines. Although I thought that the Vista forums were for development only, I see that a lot of non-related Vista posts are answered in the Windows Vista Development general forum. I'll move your post there. You may find the answer to your question in this post . ...Show All

• techstudent26 Maximum time-out interval for delay activity

  I need to set the time-out interval for delay activities to large intervals (say one year). However I am getting the following exception when I set the TimeSpan value to a large number. TimeSpan allows values as large as 2^64. So I was wondering where is the 2^32 limitation coming from. Inner exception: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Time-out interval must be less than 2^32-2. Parameter name: dueTm at System.Threading.Timer..ctor(TimerC ...Show All

• Nabz WorkflowWebHostingModule - drawbacks

  Using the WorkflowWebHostingModule seems to have some drawbacks. For example, in order to add say SqlTrackingService in code, you have to first stop the runtime, add the serive, then restart it... Thoughts JB WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = WorkflowWebRequestContext .Current.WorkflowRuntime; workflowRuntime. StopRuntime (); workflowRuntime.AddService( new SqlTrackingService (connect ...Show All

• Dhirajgupta27 Question Regarding WorkFlow Database

  Hi guys A small thing I want to ask , I recently give one of client a Demo of Windows WorkFlow Foundation well It went great but here are couple of things that I want to query as per thier requirment 1) SqlServer is key for Tracking etc but can we use simply the other (e.g Oracle Server ) for that 2) In case we are limited to use Sql Server can the work flow DB be clustered as other DB's , I mean is there any kind of constraints ...Show All

• Fayed AV's cause access failures.

  Programs like Avast Av won't allow IE to access web pages. If you turn off the On Access control then you are fine. Don't know about other AV programs yet. TTFN. Just clarifying: This is a software development forum.  "Software development" is computer industry lingo for "computer programming". If you have a problem writing programs for Windows Vista, you can ask your question here or in one of the other Windows Vista Development for ...Show All

• TahoePete small problem

  Hi, While exposing a Workflow via Web Service, in the new Web Service Code file, we used to inherit the WorkflowExample.Workflow1_WebService instead of directly  from the WebService base class as shown below. public class Service : WorkflowExample.Workflow1_WebService { } can any one say like "If I want to use two workflows into this Web Service How I have to inherit the Namespaces." In the workflow I am using WebServiceReceive an ...Show All

• AlSoft Mediacenter in Vista

  I am building Mediacenter PCs in Denmark and Sweden. Will there be support for DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T with Common Interface and for example Viaacces cards in the new Vista Right now I work with Digital everyweres Fire-dtv (both DVD-B C and -S) This have been a major problem with the 2005 media center Edition. ...Show All

• yingfeng InfTee example code

  Hi everybody, I have a project example of a filter called inftee. I can build it normally. How can I use that filter in the GraphEdit. I think I need to Registry the class, but I don’t no how. Anyone could help me Thanks. 1.register com dll you just compiled(the file extension could be .dll or .ax) with utility - regsvr32. 2.you could find the filter just registered in GraphEdit -> Insert Filter. ...Show All

• superbrad Multiple requests clogs w3wp.exe

  I'm running a workflow application from a Web application. The workflow does not scale well. When simultanious requests are made the results are: - 1 user. Response time around 10 seconds. - 2 users. Response time around 15 seconds. - 3 users. The Workflow Runtime appears to get stuck in a loop and the w3wp.exe process hogs all server resources. The only way to free the resources is to restart IIS or the server.   Has a ...Show All

• Jonathan Sion Atn: Tom Lake - Question on Your ASP.NET Tracking & Persistence Sample

  Hi Tom, I was looking through your sample code and noticed in Order.aspx that you are subscribing twice to the WorkflowCompleted event. Is there any reason for this private void StartWorkflow() { WorkflowRuntime workflowRuntime = StartRuntime(); // Now get a refernece to the ManualWorkflowSchedulerService ManualWorkflowSchedulerService scheduler = workflowRuntime.GetService<ManualWorkflowSchedulerService>(); ...Show All

• CarlosHere Custom activity with inner sequence activity locked in design mode

  Hi, I have a custom activity which simple extends the SequenceActivity. When I use this custom activity inside ot my workflows I can drag and drop activities from the toolbox to inside my custom activity. Now suppose that my custom activity contains an inner sequence activity. In my workflows when I use my custom activity, the inner sequence activity is locked. I would like in design mode to drag some activieties from the toolbox to m ...Show All

• Jeff Lewus Problems with the PSDK installation

  I use Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition and I wan't to download Platform SDK.Very good....I have downloaded the PDSK file and start the installation.But at 50% of installation I receive a error: "A necesary file from C:/Windows/Installer is corrupted." But I have an antivirus (BitDefender 9 Internet Security) and I have tried on another Windows XP system from my computer (I have 2 Windows XP) an I received the same error.What I can ...Show All

• Morgan Pugh InstanceId can't delivered from passing one workflow to another workflow

  Hi, I am facing one problem while calling one workflow from another workflow through InvokeWorkflow activity. I did the following way to do it. ParentWF: In the initialization, 1. added InvokeWorkflow activity. Assigns TagetWorkflow property = Name of the childworkflow and Invoking = MethodA() MethodA(){InstanceId = invokeWorkflowActivity1.InstanceId;} 2. Added CallExternalMethod Activity. And assigns the methodName to x ...Show All

• satya31237 Workflow not connecting to Events?

  I am trying to fire events in my workflow, but the objects I am receiving from the workflow engine do not have their events subscribed by the workflow engine. Any ideas (code below) // obtain a reference to the workflow runtime workflowRuntime = WorkflowWebRequestContext .Current.WorkflowRuntime; // setup communications through the service classes defined in the WorkflowClassLibrary project getTransferRequest = ( HMSWFTransfer ...Show All